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China - GNP per capita (Английский)

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This report examines estimates of China's Gross National Product (GNP) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in dollars. It distinguishes between exchange-rate methods (such as the World Bank's Atlas method) and the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)...
Подробнее +This report examines estimates of China's Gross National Product (GNP) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in dollars. It distinguishes between exchange-rate methods (such as the World Bank's Atlas method) and the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) method. China's statistical system and its economy are in transition, and this report, as an interim step, presents an estimate of the anticipated impact on China's Atlas-method dollar GDP of future revision in official statistics and further reforms in China's price system. It also evaluates various academic and other unofficial approximations of China's GDP per capita by the PPP method, in order to emphasize the need, as soon as possible, for an official PPP estimate based on reliable data. The report's major conclusions are: (a) China's GDP per capita in 1992 was 470 dollars by the Atlas exchange-rate method. This 470 dollar estimate is based on unofficial adjustments to local-currency (yuan) national accounts and conversion at an average commercial exchange rate; and (b) There is no reliable PPP estimate of China's GDP.
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